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Yazid Sabeg (born 8 January 1950) is a French businessman. He is the
Yazid Sabeg (born 8 January 1950) is a French businessman. He is the president
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of the administrative council
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of the high-technology firm and also a member of the .
Early life and education
Born inGuelma
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, Algeria
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to a docker father, he moved to what was then metropolitan France in 1952, and did his studies at Faidherbe Secondary School in Lille
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and then at the University of Paris I
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where he obtained a PhD
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in economic and social sciences.
Career
Sabeg began his career at a subsidiary ofCrédit Lyonnais
The Crédit Lyonnais (, "Lyon Credit ompany) was a major French bank, created in 1863 and absorbed by former rival Crédit Agricole in 2003. Its head office was initially in Lyon but moved to Paris in 1882. In the early years of the 20th cen ...
Bank. In 1990, after an experience in Spie Batignolles
Spie Batignolles is a French construction company based in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The company provides building and infrastructure construction in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland.
Company history
Ernest Goüin fou ...
, he founded a financial firm thanks to which he took control of the Compagnie des Signaux, known as CS Communication et Systèmes.
His success in the business world, coupled with his Maghreb
The Maghreb (; ), also known as the Arab Maghreb () and Northwest Africa, is the western part of the Arab world. The region comprises western and central North Africa, including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. The Maghreb al ...
ian origins, have given him a lot of media coverage. Member of the , he is close to the UMP. In 2004, he published ''Discrimination positive, pourquoi la France ne peut y échapper'' 'Positive discrimination, why France cannot escape from it''with his brother Yacine, a journalist.
Work for diversity and equality
He has been nominated as the "commissaire à l'égalité des chances" inFrançois Fillon
François Charles Amand Fillon (; born 4 March 1954) is a French retired politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of The Republicans (previously known as the Union ...
government by French president Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( ; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. In 2021, he was found guilty of having tried to bribe a judge in 2014 to obtain information ...
on 17 December 2008.
Sabeg warned that France risked becoming an apartheid
Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...
state unless it brings minorities into the mainstream. "Today we are creating a rift that is leading straight to apartheid", said Sabeg when named commissioner for diversity and equal opportunities. "We cannot allow France to become an apartheid state", he said in an interview to several French media as Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. O ...
, the first black American to serve as US president, began his first full day in office.
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